Big thanks from MN! I called my father-in-law and told him about it, he is a plumber and replaces this kind of valves all the time but he said he has never seen one that flashes any codes other than normal right out of the box Go figure!!! Shipping to: 98837. I suggest, like anything else you want to buy online, among those sellers with good reviews, choose the one with the best price. After the pilot heats the thermopile, and the LED blinks, I released the Red knob but the pilot would not stay on. Intelligent designers would program a fault reset capability after the water temperature drops to a safe point, like say 170 degrees. This does require one special tool, pictured at left. Should I replace the Temperature sensor? When I checked the water heater the status light was not blinking at all. WV4262E1107 it has a much larger board and connects a bit different. Never had this problem with old fashioned hot water heaters. Some of us had moved the controller dial through its full range and subsequently the controller failed with the 4 code. Resideo WT8840B1500 - WT8840 Water Heater Gas Valve Control, NG - 2" Spud, 5" W.C.- WATER HEATER GAS VALVE, STANDING PILOT WITH PIEZO, SETPOINT 55-155F, SPUD LENGTH = 2", BRACKET= CENTERED, REGULATOR SETTING= 5" W.C., GAS TYPE=NATURAL GAS <br><br> The WT8840 series is the Water Heater Control for trade use to replace WV8840 valves used in AO Smith and Bradford White Water Heaters. After reading many of the comments rather than short anything on the circuit board I just unplugged the red and white input power and waited about 1 hour. w~{c=?Y=R}N',8+*Skw:,q7o{v%NnxpwQNZy ZpRe"n:o [KA8tX#aW:Y{HbTna+]U. 40 gal, nat gas, no external attachments. Read all these posts Sunday and tried the unplugging of the board then relighting pilot. Went back to buy a new thermostat. i am walking thru all theses stepsworking on the circuit board nowdrained refilled and this is last effort before callingcircuit board battery?? This worked for me, and saved me some money and headaches. This time I turned to this forum. Does the brains look at the voltage from thermopile to check for over heating or underheating? After removing the controller board and the wires, I had to reattach it to light the pilot light. OMG!! Unplug the power cord for 20 seconds + One for DBs repair procedure. I followed the last paragraph instructions (what i did take off the cover.) and everything seems to be in working order again with one caveat: when I reattached the front cover with the 3-wire connector unplugged and lit the pilot, I got a 5-flash error (indicating that there was a sensor failure) rather than the 7-flash error. Pre-Owned. But they knew nothing about that. It will not attempt to clear its own fault after it faults. For sure theyre going to have a lot of unhappy customers. You cannot find the old fashion w/heaters that you could lite and forget it. Went from four blinks to seven. Honeywell has a scam going, I paid over $500,00 for my water heater and several hundred to have it installed, since day one I have had nothing but trouble with the Honeywell thermostat,gas valve. Its an excellent description, and if you dont already have the new valve, I suggest you try that first. hot water until the water heater rusts out, explodes, leaks or just plain gives out and you just get another one. Checked the wiring. There is no need to completely remove the board from the plastic control valve cover. This tank was flushed six months ago to install the current control valve. Im assuming that the old board just completely died. Im an Innkeeper with few local options for help or assistance and will be following some great advice here. Should I bootstrap the thing by supplying my own voltage of 750mv and try David Boones most excellent fault reset procedure? They do have technical PDFs for the revision A and B valves thought those sheets do not have Un-fubar information listed. Thanks forcreating this site! F-ING A BRA! Ernie. A few days ago I noticed that the combustion was very loud, like the flame was pulsating or something (I didnt know I had a pulsejet at home). Rheem next day shipped me a new Honeywell control valve. No lights at all this time I couldnt even get it to do any lights when trying to light the pilot light. Lady on phone said they werent aware of any problems but our heater still under warranty and would send us a new valve. Last year I had the blinks. The next guy I talked to was very surprised that the Valve would be bad again so quickly so he had me go through a reset procedure. Something a major of an appliance like this cant barely go a year without working. I cant believe they sent me a dud. I ended up doing this and it worked like magic. Opening hot valve of nearby sink, opening air release valve on top of tank, using 4 inlet pipe to use as a wrench lever to remove the Gas Valve assembly were a few minor but helpful things. The older controllers will reset this way. I pulled the cover yesterday , left every thing hooked up. I will miss 7 -10 years of worry free Thank you all for your help. Just for reference THISpicture shows the wire that attaches to the control board. Pulled off the cover with the dial still on pilot position the pilot light died and the light didnt flash. I didnt mind to pay for the shipping cost, but, what I minded was the device was poorly made. I did however, use the no battery option submitted by Cranky Tenants which is a little easier. https://www.flickr.com/photos/7428166@N07/13946581980/ Mine got here today, wont be changing it. I have a slight modification to make it even easier!!! Something to consider. I am beyond pissed, Reliant has a warrantee but it dont cover parts!!! I left the piezo starter installed in the plastic cover. It is obvious that they are making a killing on money selling this to just about every water heater brand out there. Anyway, I bought that same heater (2 insulation) only a couple years ago. Fix Bypass with a 15k, 2 watt resistor, and no problem. Could sediment do this? Then This year the pilot went out and I tried to re-light by pressing the red knob pointed at PILOT and pressing the square igniter button. Let people know on FB and other places that these tanks are equipped with a flawed Gas Control Valve. After reading most of this string I found a small piece of wire between the pilot light pin and main valve pin after pilot light was on did clear the code after relighting the pilot again to flashing 7 which normalized to one flash shortly after. The two wires to the controller on the bottom right are the two leads to the thermocouple which provides power to the controller and also senses when the pilot is lit. Thank you thank you! reattach the front cover with the wires still unplugged and light your pilot. > Why doesnt Lowes carry repair parts for the water heaters they sell? the side you see when it the board is in place. Neither worked, the second board is now dead. Lessons learned eh? So far its been working fine. My Family thanks you for the tip to reset the Honeywell Gas control valve. If you need to look at the back to see how the tabs are arranged, look at the new valve. Thank you David Boone for your excellent instructions in your, How to un-fault a controller post. To begin, address the old gas valve. The light started the all is good single blink and the furnace fired up. It will die eventually and it would be nice to have the gas valve ready to go. First, do NOT buy any water heater with this type of controller (you can zoom in on the ad pic. Then once it started running went to one blink. There is also a White or clear silicone rubber gasket that is entangled with pins and solenoid wires. doctor dead, steampunk adventure set 1904 san francisco, . Im just saying that you dont have to install the whole valve, but can just swap out the parts you need to make the old one work again. I completely drained the tank and had a little sediment, not much since I have a whole house filter on the incoming supply. Apparently cutting the power and going through the high-low setting twice is a reset procedure. Yes. I got pretty bitter there thinking about it. Good luck, and be sure to write Whirlpool and tell them their tank design valve is a piece of crap. I have the exact electronic gas valve unit on my Whirlpool water heater I purchased 3 years ago. (With the three wire plug OFF and the pilot on I was getting a 7 code only.) repeat steps gas valve.. Resetting the #$%@!! I suspect it to be calcium and salts. They said there was no way to re-set the board. Tyler, I will be buying a copy of your book to show support for you hosting this thread and helping to save people a LOT of $$. Called for a replacement through AOS Smith and in the meantime followed Davids How to un-fault a controller mission with success. If you are getting 750 millivolts at the RED and WHITE connections, then I would think it is a dud. All models of, WT8840 include an integrated NTC temperature, The WT8840 is powered from a thermopile heated by, the standing pilot flame. Please do this at your own risk. Think I am out of my warrantee point but I will call and see if I can get a freebee. The pilot would light and I let it sit for a few minutes running on pilot. 17 product ratings. Just one stinking notch! Executive summary: Once it has detected a water too hot event, the gas valve will never work again unless you know how to reset it. and I am spreading the word, i bought 2 water heaters for 2 rentals from homedepo with the honeywell (status poop valve), i have no idea how one hasnt blown, (1) 1st. Miller Air Core Oil and Gas Harness. The water heater is a Kenmore and I called Sears but they only wanted to send out a service worker for $79 to diagnosis the water heater although I explained numberous times that the water heater is OK It is the controller that failed. Reverse the above steps to mount the new front onto the old back thats still hooked to the water heater. Another comment when I finally got a replacement from Amazon, the LED light was White in color, not RED as my last two. Basically the Honeywell Electronic Gas Water Heater Controllers are crap (so far). Product Support. Thanks to all of you!! The thing is less then a week old!! Getting some hugs and kisses from the wife. Okay. Thank goodness I found this site. they refused to sell me a new control///, i will not buy awhirlpool; any thing again////////////. and see what the thermostat looks like). I didnt think it would work, live and learn. I had a power outage at my house and coincidentally (?) I released the pilot knob and advanced the setting to HOT and the main burner came on.. Yay. The results are nearly identical except that when I hooked up the external wires and the three wire plug on the circuit board and reassembled with the pilot on, the codes were different. As I mention in the article, in bold red text, you have to make sure whatever caused the overheat is also fixed. Why wont the cops shut Whirlpool down? This is how you can un-fault the Controller or make it check for a fault again (and clear the fault). Fall Protection Products. I turn the switch to off. the gas did shut off but it was drained for a vinegar cleaning. Oh well, hope your post saves people a lot of time and frustration. The wt8840 is powered from a thermopile heated by the standing pilot flame. Gas Control Valve Kit (Natural Gas) Brand: AO Smith SKU: 100112336 ( 70) Q&A: ( 1) - + $163.99 each ADD TO CART In Stock Get 312 Wed, Mar 1 More Available Inventory Details Order by today, receive Wednesday Free Shipping This item ships free Easy Returns No restocking fee for 90 days Product Highlights - Natural Gas Specs - Contact Question? Plug the cord back in Wish you had shown a pic of the screwdriver touching the 2 posts. I had issues let the unit sit and drain. ; 4. From this thread it is not true that the 4 flash fault is fatal. this makes it quite easy to press the starter. Could only see me in the eveningReading about what you guys have done. I speculate its because Honeywell sells a lot more gas valves this way. NEVER TO BE PURCHASED AGAIN. I have 2 bad Gas valves that i tried this on. Dead as a door knob. shut off the pilot and reconnect the 3 wire plug and but the cover back on. Thanks to everyone that posted with this problem. New valve on the way from Whirlpool. Although the part is covered under warranty, they will not just send a replacement. Look at a site like http://hometips.me/Mar/How-to-test-and-replace-Honeywell-gas-control-valve.pdf on how to remove the Controller circuit board (one screw and 3 tabs) and black control knob ( lean it to the side and it will pop out. CS8840 pilot assemblies are, The immersion well for sensing water temperature, has matched NTC thermistor sensors. $49.89. 2. detail describe please. Tried removing the cover, unplugging 3 wire plug, and then lighting pilot again. So this is the only site I could find regarding this stupid gas valve!!! Rather, drain it at a slower rate with a 1K ohm resistor. Still no flashes.) The water heater turns on and hubby and I live happily ever after. Its definitely a hassle rigging up the battery setup, but I cannot complain with the results. Is there any non-Honeywell valve that we can use in place of the Edsel we have now? Its been a week since I reset the valve and everything seems to be working fine and I did not drain the tank. Again, because Im somewhat inexperienced at this stuff, I found that there is a different teflon tape used for Gas than in plumbing. Just install the board with the cover removed as outlined. Franken valve worked! Apparently the probe was too sensitive to heat caused by sediment build up. Rotate the knob to 9 oclock to see if it will fire up on its own. He removed the cover but did not remove any wires (he fixed it very quickly). Its two pins go through the board. Thank you all for helping out the FIY. READ THEIR INSTRUCTIONS A FEW TIMES OVER! The combo of using the battery trick as well as just running wires from the posts rather than unscrewing the module worked perfectly. Now it is one-blinking again. I told her I would, but more I think about it, F that! I have the 50 gallon model of the Whirlpool water heater from Lowes that has the Honeywell controller on a Bradford White valve. Rheem gets my congrats for the great support and fast shipping. I dont know if this will last or not but it got us a reprieve as were hosting my daughters wedding shower in 2 days. Ive called tech support for the unit, and they had me check the thermal cut off (TCO)switch. Thanks guys!!! It took right off and has been working fine. I used your method with Crankytenants jumper wire modification; thanks to crankytenants, as well. The GE people walked me through a reset process over the phone and it fired right up. I will now start flushing sediment every quarter instead of annually. Holy Crap DB! Praise GOD. I dont have faith in this product and may need your instructions at a later date. Amazing! How long does the pilot need to be held on for the thermopile to get to operational mode. Thanks for the information and comments it help me restart my waterheated. Even though there are 4 higher settings! Can cause severe injury, death or property damage. I also had a aluminum shield over the thermostat that is inserted into the tank. One has a red mode indicator (the older one) and a white one. Would appreciate any info on fixing the WHITE Light Gas valve. $211.94. These things foul the sensor causing the 4 blink death light pattern. The water heater had supposedly over heated, even though I had never had it set to anything but low in the 3 years I have had it. Maybe I can avoid the $120 labor charge the next time it breaks. Two months later I drained out about 5-8 gallons, saw minimal sediment. Thanks for the above suggestions. Do this at work sometimes before shipping a job we tested with a charged capacitor. I have to say that thhis is amazing. reattach the front cover with the wires still unplugged and light your pilot. Here is the simple fix. Im not certain it works in all cases, but if it does, youre all set to go. One of the comments below, describes a way to do this by hooking a battery to a couple of connection points on the board. BONUS!!! Again, not a water heater expert, just saying based on my own experiences with the ones in my home. Any suggestions? this will also help the starter get a good ground to make a proper spark. Gas and Flame Detection. Pull the black clips on the red and white wires straight outwards to unplug them. Both times there was VERY LITTLE sludge in the bottom of the water heater. HELP !! Let the pilot without the chip wires plugged in then turned it off. And everybody wonders why plumbers charge what they do. Normally, you just need to dump a gallon or two at the most to get the sentiment out of the bottom of the tank. The light and the whole board is powered by a Thermo-electric generator powered by the pilot light. Thank you for the excellent instructions, they worked on the first try. detected: When this happens after the four flashes, it seems like this is saying something like, There has been a fault detected, and there is no fault any more. In other words, there was a fault and it went away. Only 18 month old water heater and I too had the four flashes of death, with working pilot light. Wait a minute to be sure, then turn the knob to off, and disconnect (the RED and WHITE power leads first) everything and reassemble the controller normally and start it back up. burners are on. Thank you so much!!! But they knew nothing about that. This worked well. I am trying to get an idea of how reliable the soluton is. When the circuit board in the gas valve detects the water-too-hot situation, it writes something into static memory in one of its chips, and the valve will never work again unless you can manage to reset it as described below. I copied and pasted your instructions into word and saved the file. The two wires (red/white) pluged to the honeywell box front rightside, power the box, make sure the wires are not loose, refer to diagram, mine were loose had to reattach with tiny plyers. I agree but the cheapest I have found a valve is $199.00 plus shipping and tax. i did just what you described and my water heater is finally on. God Bless you! If it finds a fault, it will shutdown. Whirlpool send me a new igniter/flame sensor and it does the same thing. Page bookmarked! Now, instead of the 4-blink I had a seven blink. Be sure to get the Yellow gas rated teflon tape and/or no. upstairs. When I contacted Rheem again, without hesitation they said they were Fed-Exing me a new valve. Im trying this tomorrow morning. Just lit the pilot again and set the temperature!! Worked for me waiting to see if burner shuts off DO NOT RECOMMEND WHIRLPOOL HOT WATER HEATERS WITH HONEYWELL GAS CONTROL VALVES! Hogwash!! I re installed it and got the 7 flashes instead of the four flashes. Super easy. It does have all of the same issues and the dreaded 4 flashes of death. Fixed? I believe I was getting 7 flashes until turning burner on and in a short time the flashes went to normal 1 flash. Keep the knob pressed in until the Pilot valve opens (a click sound and the status light starts blinking on the circuit board). My install is brand new, so there is no connection to any sediment buildup causing any malfunction state. oops I pressed the wrong key: not 170, but 70 degrees. Great writeup! The first time I paid Sears their blood money. This does not seem to be documented anywhere. It is also an adjustable regulator that insures proper gas pressure for combustion. So far, so good but was looking up things that could go wrong and found this page. F Im so mad I want to shoot the prick who cornered the market on Honeywells crap. combustion chamber. Also had flushed out the tank. I dont know if I ever got the red lights flashing. WV8840B1109 WV8840B1110 WT8840B1500 WV8840B1059 WV8840B1117 WV8840B1118. Emptied tank and there wasnt much sediment. The water heater would not work properly right out of the box. But we know different, Sounds like a lot of us are having the some problem: In that case, the pilot light will not stay lit and you do not get the four flashes. You will now need to restart the Pilot as before. I have set a reminder in outlook to drain my tank once a year from now on. I have NEVER had a thermostat unit fail in 35 years of owning houses. My tank is fed solar preheated water, and so far, that water has been warm enough that the main propane burner has never fired with the thermostat set to LOW, so I was just curious. Going to try the reset steps pointed out earlier and see if that will get me by for a little while until the new one gets here. Because, when they shop at Lowes (and other DIY stores), people dont always, every time, ask them, You carry repair parts for this, right? Installed it today. The replacement valve I received also has a white sensor light instead of red, and it has a metal capped sensor instead of black plastic. Regarding 7 flashes means Gas Control electronic fault I followed the the rest of the instructions and got my 1-flash Normal Operation going and the heater is working properly now. THIS METHOD WORKS!!! If I had just changed out the circuit boards on the old control valve Id not have gained the better sensor. (day job of electrical engineer). Quality was very bad. Cold water for 3 days in winter. taken care of on my own. Whirlpool sent me the upgraded replacement. Resetting the #$%@!! Honeywell and Sears/Home Depot/etc. Mine is the 1109 and has no posts. Mine is 3 1/2 years old. I have 4 blinking lights. I hope it helps someone. So, again Sears says they need to send a repair guy out. Wish me luck tomorrow! For more information forwardthinking.honeywell.com Home and Building Technologies 1985 Douglas Drive North Golden Valley, MN 55422 . I have a 2 yr old whirlpool 30 gal gas model with the Honeywell valve unit. Plus the cost of the above repairs. As he indicated, YOU DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK! DO NOT BUY THIS THERMOSTAT! If you havent done it in a while, theres a very good chance that it will help solve whatevers going on. Called Whirlpool, got the run-around everyone else is getting, called a few plumbers who were all in the $150+/hour. Draining your tank yearly may have prevented this but who the hell does that. I turned the knob to the on position and the burner kicked on. and cannot get circuit board outtheres a screw of some sort and and something that looks like glass attached before it will let go? If it overheats again, youll need to order yet another valve, or it will blow up, or something else you wont like. Especially, drain the sediment from the tank. save delay . I too will never buy another hot water heater with a Honeywell valve! I guess Water heaters are now interactive devices requiring yearly maintenance. 2pos honeywell spst usew. Tankless sounds good to me, but Im not an expert just another hapless victim who has learned from experience one more thing not to do. CS8840 pilot assemblies are designed for use with this control. With my method you do not need to remove it, but sometimes its hard to visualize what everyone is talking about if you have never seen it before. I even suspect there is a simpler method to do it than the one Ill now detail. I had to be transferred to water heater division and wait on hold a while but it was well worth it.). Some designers use whats called a super cap instead of a battery to preserve data for short periods of time. After about ten minutes the flashes changed back to the normal one flash operation. Can a control valve partially fail like this? This time they are sending me a new gas valve for free overnight. This time I left the knob in the pilot position for 10 minutes. It only puts out about 0.5 volts, but it is enough energy to operate everything. Thanks to this thread and bigger thanks to David Boone and the follow on info from CrankyTenants, after 10+ days without hot water and zero expense my water heater is now performing as intended again. It is interesting to note that 106F is normally just about as hot as you can stand in the shower. ** sorry, I took no pictures; the capacitor is round, about 1/2 diameter, about 1/2 tall, dark color. Thanks E. Update : Tried all the reset methods and none worked for me for the white light control valve. This changed to normal flashing within a few minutes. Called and set appointment. 1 viewed per hour. Thank you so much Tyler for this website & Dan for the awesome reset solution & others who contributed their variations of that! Thank you for your terrific post. Thanks for the submission. Most Honeywell water heaters with electric gas valves need just 12 volts for the valve to work. I had worked on a water heater that was in a flooded basement and had to open up the sealed combustion chamber, remove the burner/pilot/ignitor/thermopile assembly and dry out the ignitor with a hair dryer for about 15 minutes before it was capable of showing a spark again. THANK YOU! Oh and THISis what it looks like in the little window when your BURNERSare running (water heater is heating). I am getting NO Flash from the led light. Voltage Minimum: 350 mV dc, open circuit. (I realize this is way after the fact but just adding some personal experience) light the pilot and you still get the 7 flashes; however the water heater kicks back on and gets back up to temperature and shuts off as normal and you will see that your light now only flashes 1 time every 3 or 4 seconds. Thanks to this blog and everyones exploits with the Frankenvalve Heres what worked so far for me on a neighbors unit: I would like to add my experience with this hoping it may shed some light. I am not sure if holding the temperature button in is electronic or mechanically acts on the pilot valve (would hope the latter). Is it flashing at you? Thanks. I would like to get my hands on the jerk that designed that piece of sh___. Perhaps others with faulty valves may have begun their collapse in a similar fashion, but were not noticed until the hot water turned cold people dont usually babysit a water heater. Disconnect the battery from the Right top pin. This one broke after less that 1 year. If you cant get the pilot lit, the thermopile that generates the .75 volt power to the controller will not be generating any power either. Oh, I see. Kenmore water heater purchased at OSH in 2012. UPDATE: David Boones method worked great for me, exactly as described. Now the light changed from flashing 4 times to flashing 7 times. Have fun boys! when I drained it I observed no sediment ! Hi I have a Honeywell gas valve and the pilot button popped off. I did the trick with a AA battery and some cheap speaker wire. I just wrapped a twist tie around the 2 posts on the right & replaced the cover to restart the pilot then removed it when all was well & done. The single wire to the rectangular connector just on the left bottom side is the lead to the pilot ignitor so if thats taken off, please remember to re-attach it. Setting this one at hot results in about 120F as noted elsewhere, which is hotter than one can stand for continuous exposure. Thats just over the Hot setting on their valve. So are you saying that you got yours from the MFR? The entire process from start to finish, including 2 stops to Lowes (once for tools, second for piping) and draining/refilling tank took over 2 hours. 5.0 out of 5 stars. 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